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India has been able to put about 92 per cent of tuberculosis (TB) patients with HIV on antiretroviral therapy, Minister of Health and Family Welfare JP Nadda said, while addressing the World Health Organisation Regional Health Ministers’ Meeting on Wednesday.
India recently announced plans to eliminate TB by 2025, and steps taken by the government have resulted in a 35 per cent increase in notification of drug-resistant TB in 2016, he said. “A new anti-TB drug, Bedaquiline, has been introduced under the Conditional Access Programme (CAP) to improve outcomes of drug-resistant TB treatment. I am happy to state that progress in TB has been significant in recent times,” he said.
Health Ministers from WHO South-East Asia region and Western Pacific region were present at the meeting.
Nadda also said the disease should be included in WHO’s global priority list of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to help boost research, discovery, and development of new antibiotics.
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